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Philipp Strauss * 1886

Dithmarscher Straße 6 (Hamburg-Nord, Dulsberg)

HIER WOHNTE
PHILIPP STRAUSS
JG. 1886
DEPORTIERT 1943
AUSCHWITZ
ERMORDET

Philipp Strauss, b. 11.15.1886 in Schnodsenbach/Lower Franconia (Bavaria), deported to Auschwitz on 2.12.1943

Dithmarscher Straße 6

Little is known about the life of Philipp Strauss. He was born in Lower Franconia (Bavaria), the son of the Jewish cattle dealer Moritz Strauss and his wife Babette, née Triest. We do not know when he came to Hamburg. In 1912, he married Anna Clausen in the Hansa City; she was born in Bau in the Flensburg district (today in Denmark) and was not of Jewish descent. The marriage certificate lists his occupation as business messenger and Elbestrasse 125 as his address. As late as 1925, the couple lived at Dithmarscher Strasse 6; they had a daughter named Henriette, who, like her mother, was Protestant. At this time Philipp ran a bread business out of his home.

Since he was not listed as a member in the directory of the Jewish Congregation of 1935, he enjoyed the protection of a "privileged mixed marriage," because his daughter Henrriette was brought up as a non-Jew. He lost this protection, however, with the death of his wife on 22 November 1942. According to the death certificate, she died at the Langenhorn psychiatric hospital of "progressive paralysis" at 55 years of age.

It is possible that at the beginning of October 1942, Philipp Strauss was already in the "Jew house" at Heinrich-Barth-Strasse 8, because his wife was in the psychiatric hospital. On 12 February 1943, he was deported by way of Berlin to the Auschwitz extermination camp and murdered.


Translator: Richard Levy
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